Crossword Puzzle Number 1734 (Medium Grid)

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1. A human limb.
4. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
11. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
15. The airforce of Great Britain.
16. A yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool.
17. Absent without permission.
18. Squash bugs.
20. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
21. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. Before noon.
29. A vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot).
32. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
33. Relating to or characteristic of an apogee.
36. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
40. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
41. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
43. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
44. A habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying).
47. A flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters.
49. A republic on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean.
51. A woman of refinement.
52. Of or relating to the former Indo-European people.
54. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
55. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
60. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy.
63. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
65. Advanced in years.
66. The act of scanning.
69. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
71. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
74. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
75. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
76. (anatomy) Of or related to an ampulla.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
2. Type genus of the Ranidae.
3. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
7. A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea.
8. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
9. Tropical Asian starlings.
10. Black tropical American cuckoo.
11. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
12. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
13. A person of subnormal intelligence.
14. An occurrence of thorough mixing.
19. Small branch or division of a branch.
23. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
24. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
25. (botany) Development of an embryo without fertilization.
26. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
28. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
30. The first event in a series.
31. Type genus of the Anatidae.
34. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
35. A person of unquestioning obedience.
37. In bed.
38. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
39. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
42. A city in southern Malawi.
45. Put (things or places) in order.
46. Located inward.
48. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
50. United States writer and social critic (1817-1862).
53. An associate degree in nursing.
56. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
57. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
61. A book of the New Testament.
62. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
64. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.
67. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
68. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. An informal term for a father.
73. Being nine more than forty.

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